Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville

Abstract

As government policy, consumer markets, and global geopolitics rapidly shift, it will be imperative that energy companies, universities, and government organizations have access to research that addresses the subsurface development of energy. A key area of research for the energy transition is related to the precipitation, deposition, and diapirism in salt basins. Traditionally, evaporite stratigraphy and diapirism have been of great interest to the oil and gas industry because of the active petroleum systems and will continue to be valuable, especially from an energy security perspective. Energy security is important for several reasons, as it has significant implications for a...