Türkiye imports most of its gas and moves it through a transmission network fed from Russia, Azerbaijan, LNG terminals and, since 2023, its own Black Sea field. This page is for the HSE, operations and telecoms teams across that chain who need an explosion proof mobile phone for gas, LNG and pipelines in Türkiye that suits unmanned stations as well as terminals. The IS-04Z1 is designed for Zone 1 and Zone 21, and certification is in progress. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification programme in progress
The sector has four kinds of site, and each wants something different from a handset. Import entry points, such as the TANAP line, 1,337 km from Posof to Seyitgazi in Eskişehir and flowing to Türkiye since 30 June 2018, and the TurkStream landfall at Kıyıköy, are large, quiet stations. LNG terminals are busy, with cargoes arriving at the onshore terminals at Marmara Ereğlisi and Aliağa and the floating units at Aliağa, Dörtyol and Saros. Black Sea production reaches the shore at Filyos through a pipeline of about 170 km. Between them, the transmission lines run through compressor and metering stations such as Çorum on the Samsun–Ankara Blue Stream line. For the operator’s own network, see the page on an explosion proof phone for BOTAŞ.
Gas work spans the quietest and the busiest sites in the country. These are the conditions that separate a handset that is used from one that stays in a vehicle.
A regulating or valve station may be visited weekly. Four-constellation GNSS puts the station on the visit record, and the 4,000 mAh cell is sized for a route that includes long drives and no charging point inside the fence.
LNG cargoes at Aliağa, Marmara Ereğlisi and the floating units arrive on schedule regardless of the hour. IP68 sealing handles spray at the jetty, and the 50 MP camera records the manifold and connection state for the cargo record.
A metering station feeds money and balance accounts. A photograph of a reading with a time and a position beside it is stronger evidence than a notebook line, and Android Enterprise policy can stop it being edited off the device.
TPAO, BOTAŞ and private LNG terminal operators all work in the same region. Each runs its own console, and the IS-04Z1 is designed to be managed from the existing MDM console rather than a new one.
A technician arrives at a remote valve site, records the position and photographs the actuator. The report goes straight to the maintenance planner instead of waiting for a return to a depot.
An operator on a vaporiser or tank round logs readings and photographs anything unusual. The same device carries the permit and reaches the control room.
Staff at the onshore plant for Black Sea gas work through process areas where the gas arrives from a long subsea line, and need a record that links a photograph to a location.
Methane is gas group IIA, the easiest of the groups to protect against. A handset marked for IIC covers IIA, so the group is not the limiting factor at a gas site; the temperature class and the zone drawings are.
The zone, not the sector, is what matters. A Zone 1 device can be used in Zone 2, so a route that crosses both can use one handset, provided the classification drawings and the operator’s HSE team agree.
A floating unit is a ship, and its hazardous areas follow marine rules in addition to the terminal’s. Check with the vessel operator and the terminal HSE team before taking any handset aboard.
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 Turkey. 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.
