diff --git a/applications/ebos/eclproblem.hh b/applications/ebos/eclproblem.hh
index 92ce62aff..5a1127ea2 100644
--- a/applications/ebos/eclproblem.hh
+++ b/applications/ebos/eclproblem.hh
@@ -167,9 +167,9 @@ SET_SCALAR_PROP(EclBaseProblem, NewtonRawTolerance, 1e-4);
 // thus abort the futile attempt early.
 SET_SCALAR_PROP(EclBaseProblem, NewtonMaxError, 0.1);
 
-// set the maximum number of Newton iterations to 10 because the likelyhood that a time
-// step succeeds at more than 10 Newton iteration is rather small
-SET_INT_PROP(EclBaseProblem, NewtonMaxIterations, 10);
+// set the maximum number of Newton iterations to 14 because the likelyhood that a time
+// step succeeds at more than 14 Newton iteration is rather small
+SET_INT_PROP(EclBaseProblem, NewtonMaxIterations, 14);
 
 // also, reduce the target for the "optimum" number of Newton iterations to 6. Note that
 // this is only relevant if the time step is reduced from the report step size for some