Deepwater pipeline route surveys are increasingly delivered as integrated geophysical, geotechnical and metocean packages, coordinated through remote operations centres rather than solely offshore-based teams. This is directly relevant to organisations tendering for, resourcing or reviewing similar route-engineering campaigns in frontier deepwater basins. As deepwater pipeline projects push into deeper, less-charted basins such as the Timor Trough, how should survey teams balance the cost and schedule benefits of remote-operations-centre coordination against the value of having specialists present offshore? Fugro has secured additional geotechnical and metocean survey contracts from Timor-Leste's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, supporting pipeline route engineering for the Greater Sunrise and Bayu-Undan developments in water depths to 3,000 metres. The campaign, coordinated through Fugro's Kuala Lumpur Remote Operations Centre, illustrates how deepwater route surveys are increasingly delivered as integrated geophysical-geotechnical-metocean packages managed remotely. Worth watching as more frontier deepwater pipeline projects move from geophysical screening into detailed site investigation.