Athabasca Bitumen upgrading via In Situ Combustion (ISC) and In Situ UpgradingTechnology (ISUT) was studied in the present work, addressing three aspects related to these processes: I. Monitoring techniques specially developed for getting distillation characteristics for products and their fractions, II. How distillation properties depend on process set up experimental conditions, III. Assess the permanent upgrading levels achieved for products from both studied processes. High temperature simulated distillation (HTSD) techniques were conceived for getting analysis turnarounds of 1-2 weeks, instead of month spans required when relying on standard physical distillation methodologies. Developed monitoring procedures guaranteed samples integrity, i.e., volatile fractions (<230ºC, about