Abstract

In this paper analise the role of organic matter (“OM”), their richness. Besides identify different characters between types of "OM" and reason of those different characters of sediment basins of Vietnam's continental shelf. On those results classify two groups of sediment basins with their character of “OM”. One group is marginalplate and other group is interplate. From of them interplate sediment basins have richness of “OM” with high quality - that mean, kerogen II type, high content of hydrogen, less of of oxygen and have the potential to generate the oil pron. The marginalplate sediment basins have medium quantity of “OM”, richness of oxygen, less of hydrogen and have the potential to generate condensat and gase.