Wellbore construction through salt formation remains a great challenge in drilling engineering in many oil provinces around the world, notably offshore Brazil, due to its unique mechanical properties, in particular, its high creep mobility under downhole conditions. Initially, it is necessary to control wellbore closure during drilling in order to allow casing installation. Later, the loading of the casing in both the cemented and uncemented sections is cause of concerns to prevent issues of long-term wellbore integrity. However, the contact between the salt and the casing can provide a necessary and economically beneficial natural barrier. This work consists of extracts of the research project Evaluation of the potential of clayey and evaporitic formations to act as an external barrier to the casing for the abandonment of wells, carried out by the Group of Technology and Petroleum Engineering (GTEP) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aim of this work is to model wellbore closure in salt throughout uncemented casing zones considering open annular. For this, a computational methodology was developed, using the commercial finite element code ABAQUS. As the first stage of the study, in order to validate the simulation protocol, the reproduction of studies about the formation of natural barriers in salt, reported in the literature, is presented, considering the small and large deformation modes of the ABAQUS. The comparison between the results obtained demonstrates a time difference for annular closure ranging from a few months to a few years, depending of depth and type of salt. Discussions on specific aspects of creep simulation in salt rocks are also made at this stage. In the second stage of the work, is presented an analysis to estimate the wellbore closure time under field conditions representative of the Brazilian basins, coupling the adjustments made in the previous stage. The salt constitutive behavior used to simulate the steady-state creep was double mechanism model and the parameters are representative of the Brazilian offshore scenario. As a result, it is observed the potential for the formation of natural barriers in saline layers for permanent plug and abandonment operations. In both simulations, annular closure is performed using 2D models of plane strain and axisymmetric, representing the cross section and longitudinal section, respectively. The simulation steps are divided into initial equilibrium stress field (geostatics) followed by drilling and simulated creep as a viscoelastic material.