Kuwait Oil Company runs upstream production from Greater Burgan in the south to the Jurassic gas fields near the northern border. This page is for HSE and telecoms teams looking for an explosion proof mobile phone for Kuwait Oil Company sites, with the northern sour-gas facilities in mind. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification and vendor documentation in progress
The Ahmadi page covers the headquarters town and the Greater Burgan gathering centres. This page looks at what is built further out. Gathering Centre 32 at Burgan is described as the first sour crude gathering centre in the field, built by Petrofac to handle about 120,000 barrels a day from the Arifjan, Marat, Minagish Oolite and Burgan Wara fields, which carry high hydrogen sulphide. In the north, the Jurassic production facilities at Sabriya and Umm Niqa, East Raudhatain and West Raudhatain were commissioned between 2017 and 2019, each reported at about 40,000 barrels a day of crude and more than 100 million standard cubic feet a day of sour gas. These sites are remote, newer than the southern plants and often run with small crews.
The north is further from the township, the workshop and the charging point. These are the conditions that matter there.
Crews on sour service already wear a personal detector, and the handset must not compete with it for attention or a hand. Bluetooth lets the detector and the IS-04Z1 work together. Hydrogen sulphide is itself group IIB, so a group IIC design target covers it.
A wellpad visit in the north may be an hour from a workshop. Four-constellation GNSS puts a coordinate on an alarm or a photograph, and a 4,000 mAh battery is specified to last the shift.
Open sites hold summer heat all day and a northerly dust event can arrive within an hour. IP68 sealing is what keeps ports and seams clear, and the ATEX marking target II 2 G Ex ib IIC T4 is what your classification is checked against.
KOC facilities control photography, so a camera has to be manageable. The enrolled IS-04Z1 lets the console switch the 50 MP camera off or restrict it to approved applications.
A round through separators, compression and flare knockout logs readings and reports a leak with a photograph and a position, while the personal detector stays on and the hands stay free.
Handover of a centre like GC-32 means punch lists, permits and a rotating contractor population. Enrolled handsets can be issued for the contract and wiped at the end.
A rig takes its classified area with it. A handset carrying the permit, the site directory and the daily report keeps a contractor crew working to the same permit as the operator.
The country page notes that KOC runs its own vendor registration and prequalification. We have not verified the programme name or document list, so treat this as questions to ask.
No. It is pre-launch, no certificate has been issued, and KOC's own engineering review follows the national conformity route.
No. SAMS has no KOC registration. We are preparing documentation and intend to work through a registered Kuwaiti agent, and that is intent, not an approval.
No. A handset is a communication device and never a gas detector. It is designed to sit alongside the detector crews already carry.
Android 16 runs the interface in Arabic or English on the same handset, and your own applications keep their languages.
Tell us the site, the zone and gas group, and roughly how many handsets. The SAMS team replies by email with the datasheet and the certification schedule for Kuwait. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and certification is in progress, so there is no list price yet; indicative pricing is issued in writing against a stated quantity and site.
Tell us the zone, gas group and operator. We will send the datasheet and the certification schedule for your market.
