The mechanism of the partical oxidation reaction's mechanism of methane based on nickel was investigated by DFT and MP2 methods with mixed basis set. The research showed that on Ni-based catalysts, there were six steps involved in the reaction system and two steps were side reaction. The heats of reaction of the six steps were: 212. 46, -413.46, -69.65,135.28, -94.69, -42.25 kJ/mol. The first step of methane's releasing hydrogen atom were endothermic. The fifth critical of coloradb-generation step was easy to tak...