diff --git a/applications/ebos/eclbasegridmanager.hh b/applications/ebos/eclbasegridmanager.hh
index c814ccde0..7e6491450 100644
--- a/applications/ebos/eclbasegridmanager.hh
+++ b/applications/ebos/eclbasegridmanager.hh
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ public:
     EclBaseGridManager(Simulator &simulator)
         : ParentType(simulator)
     {
+        int myRank = 0;
+#if HAVE_MPI
+        MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &myRank);
+#endif
+
         std::string fileName = EWOMS_GET_PARAM(TypeTag, std::string, EclDeckFileName);
 
         // compute the base name of the input file name
@@ -118,13 +123,16 @@ public:
         for (size_t i = 0; i < rawCaseName.size(); ++i)
             caseName_ += std::toupper(rawCaseName[i]);
 
+        if (myRank == 0)
+            std::cout << "Reading the deck file '" << fileName << "'" << std::endl;
+
         Opm::ParserPtr parser(new Opm::Parser());
         typedef std::pair<std::string, Opm::InputError::Action> ParseModePair;
         typedef std::vector<ParseModePair> ParseModePairs;
         ParseModePairs tmp;
         tmp.push_back(ParseModePair(Opm::ParseMode::PARSE_RANDOM_SLASH , Opm::InputError::IGNORE));
         Opm::ParseMode parseMode(tmp);
-        std::cout << "Reading the deck file '" << fileName << "'" << std::endl;
+
         deck_ = parser->parseFile(fileName , parseMode);
         eclState_.reset(new Opm::EclipseState(deck_, parseMode));
 
diff --git a/applications/ebos/eclcpgridmanager.hh b/applications/ebos/eclcpgridmanager.hh
index 3390bc8a7..e2d35d86f 100644
--- a/applications/ebos/eclcpgridmanager.hh
+++ b/applications/ebos/eclcpgridmanager.hh
@@ -126,12 +126,21 @@ public:
     void loadBalance()
     {
 #if HAVE_MPI
-#warning "Since Dune::CpGrid is buggy when load balancing, ebos currently disables parallelism"
-#endif
-#if 0
-        // distribute the grid and switch to the distributed view
-        grid_->loadBalance();
-        grid_->switchToDistributedView();
+        int mpiRank = 0;
+        int mpiSize = 1;
+        MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mpiRank);
+        MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mpiSize);
+        if (mpiRank == 0 && mpiSize > 1) {
+            // TODO: remove the two statements below as soon as Dune::CpGrid works
+            // correctly for the Norne deck!
+            std::cerr << "Since Dune::CpGrid is buggy when load balancing, "
+                      << "ebos currently disables parallelism when using Dune::CpGrid.\n";
+            std::abort();
+
+            // distribute the grid and switch to the distributed view.
+            grid_->loadBalance();
+            grid_->switchToDistributedView();
+        }
 #endif
 
         cartesianIndexMapper_ = new CartesianIndexMapper(*grid_);