Drilling thick salt rock layers for Brazilian pre-salt exploitation challenges geomechanics in improving computational modeling of those rocks. Accurate predictions can avoid operational complications in the drilling job, ranging from the excessive necessity of new drillings to a stuck pipe or even the loss of the wellbore. Salt rock shows unique properties. The mechanical behavior of salt rock is different from that usually described in traditional rock mechanics. The understanding of the creep phenomenon constitutes an indispensable conceptual background for numerical simulation of salt rocks. Some methodologies are presented for the simulation of salt rock creep behavior using the commercial finite element code ABAQUS. Three power-law-based constitutive models for creep are tested on simulations of triaxial creep tests, a mining gallery and both cased and uncased wellbores. A first effort to calibrate and validate the Multi-mechanism Deformation Creep Model for application in the Brazilian halite should be highlighted. Moreover, a methodology for probabilistic analyses of wellbore closure and casing yielding is presented. The software NESSUS is adopted and the Mean Value reliability methods are employed. A transversal model of cased wellbore typical for a Brazilian pre-salt scenario is considered. For both events and constitutive models, deterministic results are associated to a probability of failure of 40 per cent. Variables with the highest importance in salt rock creep analyses are related to the stress state, temperature and steady-state creep. Finally, the excellent performance of the Multi-mechanism Deformation Creep Model in the numerical simulations carried out in this research is noteworthy.