diff --git a/opm/simulators/flow/EclWriter.hpp b/opm/simulators/flow/EclWriter.hpp
index ecd03c16f..6ebb21097 100644
--- a/opm/simulators/flow/EclWriter.hpp
+++ b/opm/simulators/flow/EclWriter.hpp
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ public:
         }
 
         this->rank_ = this->simulator_.vanguard().grid().comm().rank();
+
+        this->simulator_.vanguard().eclState().computeFipRegionStatistics();
     }
 
     ~EclWriter()
diff --git a/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.cpp b/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.cpp
index b916cf3a6..042eb9263 100644
--- a/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.cpp
+++ b/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.cpp
@@ -20,13 +20,18 @@
 #include <config.h>
 #include <opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.hpp>
 
+#include <opm/input/eclipse/EclipseState/Grid/FIPRegionStatistics.hpp>
 #include <opm/input/eclipse/EclipseState/Grid/FieldData.hpp>
+#include <opm/input/eclipse/EclipseState/Runspec.hpp>
 
 #include <opm/common/ErrorMacros.hpp>
 
 #include <cstddef>
+#include <map>
 #include <regex>
+#include <stdexcept>
 #include <string>
+#include <vector>
 
 namespace {
     bool is_FIP(const std::string& keyword)
@@ -280,6 +285,20 @@ const FieldPropsManager& ParallelEclipseState::globalFieldProps() const
 }
 
 
+void ParallelEclipseState::computeFipRegionStatistics()
+{
+    if (! this->fipRegionStatistics_.has_value()) {
+        this->fipRegionStatistics_
+            .emplace(declaredMaxRegionID(this->runspec()),
+                     this->fieldProps(),
+                     [this](std::vector<int>& maxRegionID)
+                     {
+                         this->m_comm.max(maxRegionID.data(), maxRegionID.size());
+                     });
+    }
+}
+
+
 const EclipseGrid& ParallelEclipseState::getInputGrid() const
 {
     if (m_comm.rank() != 0)
diff --git a/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.hpp b/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.hpp
index 8f6b84cbf..ab82251d6 100644
--- a/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.hpp
+++ b/opm/simulators/utils/ParallelEclipseState.hpp
@@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ public:
     //! \details Can only be called on root process.
     const FieldPropsManager& globalFieldProps() const override;
 
+    //! \brief Compute basic descriptive statistics about all FIP region sets
+    //!
+    //! MPI-aware version which knows how to compute statistics across all
+    //! ranks.
+    void computeFipRegionStatistics() override;
+
     //! \brief Returns a const ref to the eclipse grid.
     //! \details Can only be called on root process.
     const EclipseGrid& getInputGrid() const override;