diff --git a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp
index 80933b2b7..de76309a0 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ namespace Opm
         return dx;
     }
 
+    const boost::any& NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR::parallelInformation() const
+    {
+        return parallelInformation_;
+    }
 
 
 
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.hpp b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.hpp
index 58a19989d..e97a56408 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.hpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.hpp
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ namespace Opm
         /// \copydoc NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface::iterations
         virtual int iterations () const { return iterations_; }
 
+        /// \copydoc NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface::parallelInformation
+        virtual const boost::any& parallelInformation() const;
+
+    private:
+
         /// \brief construct the CPR preconditioner and the solver.
         /// \tparam P The type of the parallel information.
         /// \param parallelInformation the information about the parallelization.
@@ -99,7 +104,6 @@ namespace Opm
             linsolve.apply(x, istlb, result);
         }
 
-    private:
         mutable int iterations_;
         double cpr_relax_;
         unsigned int cpr_ilu_n_;
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface.hpp b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface.hpp
index 2e26db07e..ffe886153 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface.hpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface.hpp
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include <opm/autodiff/LinearisedBlackoilResidual.hpp>
 
+#include <boost/any.hpp>
 namespace Opm
 {
 
@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@ namespace Opm
 
         /// \return number of linear iterations used during last call of computeNewtonIncrement
         virtual int iterations () const = 0;
+
+
+        /// \brief Get the information about the parallelization of the grid.
+        virtual const boost::any& parallelInformation() const = 0;
     };
 
 } // namespace Opm
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.cpp b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.cpp
index b976680b4..3817d94b9 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.cpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.cpp
@@ -74,5 +74,9 @@ namespace Opm
         return dx;
     }
 
+    const boost::any& NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple::parallelInformation() const
+    {
+        return parallelInformation_;
+    }
 } // namespace Opm
 
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.hpp b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.hpp
index 20cd484c4..5f530f10c 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.hpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilSimple.hpp
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ namespace Opm
         /// \copydoc NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface::iterations
         virtual int iterations () const { return iterations_; }
 
+        /// \copydoc NewtonIterationBlackoilInterface::parallelInformation
+        virtual const boost::any& parallelInformation() const;
+
     private:
         std::unique_ptr<LinearSolverInterface> linsolver_;
         mutable int iterations_;