Abstract: This paper simply analyzed the problems remained in conventional recovery methods for heavy oil reservoirs. For example, due to very high viscosity in production, formation flow, well bore flow and surface fluid gathering are very difficult. Therefore, a new idea named formation oil catalysis and crack technology is provided to solve the problems in the paper, and it also discussed the mechanism of formation oil catalysis and crack and their technical process initially. Further. more, it points out the related problems and guidelines which still needs to be studied and solved for field application.