Something seems off with this video, I can't tell if it's because of the fakeness that goes along with any PR stunt or because the whole thing is a fabrication.

Edit 7: Wherein Gawker confirms that the whole thing is fake. http://gawker.com/5916661/hilarious-video-of-shell-oil-party-disaster-is-fake-unfortunately

To the doubters who made me feel like the bad guy in all of this, I respond with some wise words from Flexo, "Thanks, I appreciate that. Nah, I'm joshing with you, that was quite annoying!"

Edit 6: OmvendtNinja appears to have done some great detective work below and confirmed the suspicions that this was fake. I went through and did the same NS and MX lookups so the following is all easily repeatable for anyone else to do. Please point out any errors I might have missed.

[1] https://twitter.com/kstrel/status/210634392203300864/photo/1 leads to

[2] http://wainwrightshore.eventbrite.com/ which leads to

[3] http://wainwrightshore.com/ which leads to

whois wainwrightshore.com | grep Creation Creation Date: 10-may-2012

and

$ dig -t ns +noall +answer wainwrightshore.com wainwrightshore.com. 434 IN NS b.ns.mayfirst.org. wainwrightshore.com. 434 IN NS a.ns.mayfirst.org.

and

$ dig -t mx +noall +answer wainwrightshore.com wainwrightshore.com. 568 IN MX 0 theyesmen.org.

http://www.theyesmen.org The description on their website: "Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Our targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else."

Edit 5: I want to address some of the criticisms raised. Firstly, I only ever said that I was skeptical of the video, not that I was starting a new website to decry some new secret OWS conspiracy. I'm entirely willing to be proven wrong, I haven't even decided if the video is better if genuine or a fabrication, pretty hilarious either way if you ask me!

How did they get the actors, costumes, etc? If, for example, it were staged by Occupy protesters I don't imagine that it would be difficult to get volunteers, the volunteers just dress for the event. The biggest hurdle would be renting the lounge, producing the poster we see at the start of the video and rigging the cake/pump thing.

How could they afford to rent the lounge? This is probably the best objection I have seen, but how costly would it really be? Maybe they know someone in the building who is sympathetic? Haven't we seen stranger hoaxes before

Edit 4: I tried listening to the video while keeping my eyes closed. While doing this several parts ring false. The old widow's response is so bizarre that I don't think you can get a read on it but if you listen to the crowd's reaction it's oddly delayed and then in unison, which doesn't make sense. Also, you can hear one guy out of sync who appears to be responding in an almost sarcastic manner not taking the situation seriously. Lastly when the cameraman is being escorted out I think he says, "Obviously you have a mess on your hands." The way that he says this and the wording seems so unnatural that if this were the only thing "wrong" with the video I would still suspect the veracity of the entire video.

Edit 3: I'm going to feel awful silly if I'm wrong but Grande_Yarbles pointed out something that seems like the clearest evidence that this video was likely staged.

Watch the old lady closely... she starts to make a shocked face and raises her hands up a moment before the geyser. Then there's this incredulous pause afterwards and the 'engineer' stands there instead of, you know, putting his hand in front of the spray or something like that. Reminded me of a skit the first time I saw it.

I have linked the video a second before her reaction to illustrate this point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NMUFci_V4mU#t=29s

Edit 2:

Below is a link to the twitter feed of the guy who uploaded the video wherein he describes himself as an Occupy protester. To be clear, I have nothing against the Occupy movement I was just adding it to the list of unlikely things that occur in the video. https://twitter.com/#!/kstrel

Edit 1: Upon a second viewing it seems too good to be true. This occupy protester makes it into this private Shell party, only to witness the engineer of Shell's new well struggle to operate its model and then impotent to stop its malfunction while spraying oil in the face of an incredulous old widow. The cherry on top of this whole fiasco is that the person taking the video gets strong-armed out of the room and the presumed shell employee doing so attempts to confiscate his phone. It's like an occupy protester's wet dream, color me skeptical.