Consultancy

Salt tectonics

Specialist consultancy on salt structures, evaporite systems and their implications for energy and storage.

Salt tectonics

Salt tectonics is our core specialism. We advise on salt structures and evaporite systems — and on what they mean for exploration, subsurface storage and the energy transition.

We bring together fieldwork, subsurface data and a deep familiarity with salt-bearing basins to help you interpret complex salt geometries with confidence.

What we can advise on

  • Interpreting salt on seismic — diapirs, welds, salt-detached fold-and-thrust belts, minibasins and canopies
  • The behaviour and rheology of impure salt, and the intra-salt heterogeneities that matter for seals and storage caverns
  • Salt in the petroleum system — traps, seals, and source–reservoir relationships
  • Salt for the energy transition — hydrogen, compressed-air and carbon storage, and geothermal
  • Outcrop and salt-mine analogues to constrain and de-risk subsurface interpretations

Working with us

Research-led and industry-tested

Our advice is grounded in peer-reviewed research and in real industry experience, including years interpreting subsurface data in the hydrocarbon sector.

From outcrop to subsurface

We combine fieldwork, subsurface interpretation and a research background spanning salt tectonics, structural geology and geo-energy — a rare, joined-up perspective across scales.

Independent and objective

As an outside team, we bring a fresh, unbiased view that complements your own, and we say what we see.

Clear, decision-ready outputs

You receive concise, well-documented deliverables you can act on, not just a report that sits on a shelf.

Independent review & second opinions

Sometimes the most valuable input is a fresh, independent perspective on work already done. We're glad to review your interpretations, models and cross-sections and offer a considered second opinion — one that either reinforces confidence in your current approach or gently surfaces alternative interpretations, uncertainties and pitfalls worth weighing.

We see this as a collaborative sense-check rather than a critique: our aim is to help your team de-risk decisions and strengthen the story your data tells.