Abstract: This review is concentrated on the NMR appucations to the science and technology of the solid fossil energies.Various solid state NMR techniques such as CP,MAS,DD,DNP,TOSS,CKAMPS,NMRI have been used for the characterization of chemical structure with different parameters in which the aromaticity of carbon and hydrogen is the essential.Recently,new developing techniques of the triple angle MAT and of the spectral editing based on proton multiplicities reveal that more detail structural information may be extracted from the NMR spectra.The topics of NMR application to the solid fossil energies are focused on the natural and artificial thermal evolution mechanism,the oil and gas potential evaluation and the coal property prediction during chemical processing.Sixty-five references have been cited in which twenty-seven are contributed by Chinese authors.

Key words: NMR, Solid fossil energies, Coals, Kerogens