Todd Energy is the energy arm of the privately held Todd Corporation and owns and operates the Kapuni, McKee and Mangahewa fields in Taranaki. Anyone looking for an explosion proof mobile phone for New Zealand upstream gas work will find most of the wellpads, treatment plants and production stations on this page. It is written for the engineers, HSE staff and field supervisors who decide what a person may carry beyond the production station gate. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification and vendor documentation in progress
Todd's footprint is compact and inland, unlike the offshore platforms run by its neighbours. Kapuni, near Eltham in South Taranaki, is among New Zealand's oldest commercial gas fields, discovered in 1959, and its gas is processed at the Kapuni gas treatment plant on Palmer Road. Further north, the McKee Mangahewa production station on Otaraoa Road near Tikorangi processes oil and gas from the McKee and Mangahewa wellsites; construction of the McKee station began in 1983 and it opened in 1985. Todd also holds 26 per cent of the offshore Pohokura field, which OMV operates, so Todd staff regularly visit sites that are not Todd's. Wellpads hold several wells close together, and drilling or well intervention campaigns bring rigs and service crews onto them for weeks at a time. The Taranaki Regional Council publishes annual monitoring reports on both Todd stations.
Todd's sites are small, dispersed and often lightly staffed, which changes what a handset has to do. The hazards are ordinary for gas: methane is gas group IIA and condensate vapour is similar, so the classification is mostly about where, not what.
A field operator may drive between pads and work alone on a wellsite, so reaching the control room matters more than anything else the device does. Four-constellation GNSS puts a position on the record if a call goes unanswered.
Wellsite inspections produce readings, photographs and checks. A single handset with a 50 MP camera and Android Enterprise apps replaces a clipboard and a separate camera that would otherwise stay in the vehicle.
A drilling or workover campaign puts rig crews, service companies and inspectors on one pad. Enrolment into a managed console lets Todd decide which apps, contacts and permits a contractor's handset carries.
Taranaki rainfall and unsealed pad surfaces are hard on a handset. IP68 sealing and rugged build are chosen for that, with a 4,000 mAh battery specified to last a shift.
An operator checks wellheads, separators and flowlines on a pad, photographs a weeping fitting and records readings. The handset is designed to do it in Zone 1 without the stop at the vehicle to switch devices.
At Kapuni and McKee Mangahewa, planned shutdowns put contractors into compression and treatment areas together. Permits, isolations and photographs sit on one device that the site can wipe or reassign afterwards.
Todd's staff visiting OMV's Pohokura station follow OMV's rules, not Todd's. A handset whose documentation can be shown to both operators makes the introduction easier, though each decides for itself.
We have no relationship with Todd Energy and cannot describe its supplier or contractor registration process. Ask its procurement and HSE teams what a supplier of equipment for classified areas must supply before an evaluation.
No. Todd operates its own onshore fields and plants and is a 26 per cent partner in Pohokura, which OMV operates. Each has its own approval route.
The design target is Zone 1 across both. The difference is the classification of each area, which the operator's dossier states and the certificate has to cover.
Not exactly. Each field's gas composition differs, so confirm gas group and temperature class against the site's dossier rather than assuming a basin-wide figure.
It adds people and short-term permits more than new hazards. The practical need is quick enrolment of contractor handsets and their removal afterwards.
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 New Zealand. 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.
