ERHC Energy Announces Annual Shareholders’ Meeting Date

HOUSTON, Nov. 20, 2007 – ERHC Energy Inc. (OTCBB: ERHE), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with significant assets in the Gulf of Guinea, has announced that it will hold its next annual shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in Houston, Texas. Shareholders of record as of March 14, 2008 are eligible to vote at the meeting.

Shareholders of record will receive formal notice of the meeting and an invitation to attend via a Proxy Statement that will contain the time and venue of the meeting.

The address to shareholders by the President/Chief Executive Officer of the Company will review the Company’s performance and prospects.  Shareholders will have the opportunity to elect directors and affirm the appointment of the Company’s independent auditors. The meeting will also be accessible in listen-only mode, by telephone and through the Internet, to the Corporation’s shareholders and all other interested parties. The discussion may include forward-looking information. Access instructions will be announced prior to the meeting.

“We look forward to this opportunity to meet personally with shareholders and discuss our various initiatives and accomplishments,” said Acting Chief Executive Officer Nicolae Luca.

ERHC has interests in Blocks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 in the offshore Joint Development Zone (JDZ) between Nigeria and the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe.  ERHC has additional interests in the territorial waters of Sao Tome and Principe, known as the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). 

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Safe Harbor Statement
This press release of ERHC Energy Inc. (the “Company”) contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  Such statements may include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the Company’s future growth, operating milestones, drilling operations, business plans, prospects, investment opportunities, activities in the JDZ, corporate governance, cash position, financial position and financing plans, as well as other matters that are not historical facts or information.  Such statements are inherently subject to a variety of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, projected, expressed or implied.  A discussion of the risk factors that could impact these areas and the Company’s overall business and financial performance can be found in the Company’s reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  These factors include, among others, those relating to the Company’s ability to exploit its commercial interests in the JDZ and the exclusive territorial waters of Sao Tome and Principe, general economic and business conditions, changes in foreign and domestic oil and gas exploration and production activity, competition, changes in foreign, political, social and economic conditions, regulatory initiatives, compliance with governmental laws and regulations and various other matters, many of which are beyond the Company’s control.  Given these concerns, investors and analysts should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.  Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this press release.  The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in the Company’s expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based.