NEW YORK CITY, November 5, 2008 – ERHC Energy Inc. (OTCBB: ERHE), a publicly traded American company with oil and gas assets in the highly prospective Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa, today announced that the company's financial presentation at RedChip’s Elite Investment Conference will be streamed live on the Web. Vice President - Corporate Development David Bovell will present at 1:00 p.m. Central Time today. To access Mr. Bovell's presentation, register at http://www.redchip.com/visibility/conferencePages/NewYorkNovember2008/conferenceMain.asp?page=webcast

ERHC Presents at RedChipERHC is one of 15 emerging growth companies featured at the day-long conference. Participation in the RedChip Elite Investment Conference is part of ERHC Energy’s strategy to take its story to investors in the U.S. and international markets. Last month, ERHC presented at the 2008 Global Investment Symposium in Dubai.

RedChip investor conferences are a nationally known forum for emerging small-cap companies to present their stories before hundreds of retail brokers, institutional brokers, fund managers, portfolio managers, accredited investors, and research analysts whose disciplined focus towards the small-cap markets represents their core investment strategies.

About ERHC Energy
ERHC Energy Inc. is a publicly traded American company with valuable oil and gas assets in the in the highly prospective Gulf of Guinea. ERHC is committed to creating and delivering significant value for its shareholders, investors, and employees; sustainable and profitable growth through risk balanced smart exploration, cost efficient development and high margin production. For more information, visit www.erhc.com.  

This press release contains statements concerning ERHC Energy Inc.’s future operating milestones, future drilling operations, the planned exploration and appraisal program, future prospects, future investment opportunities and financing plans, future shareholders’ meetings, response to the Senate Subcommittee investigation, developments in the SEC investigation of the Company and related proceedings, 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 São Tomé and Príncipe, 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 and compliance with governmental 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 these statements. Each of the above statements 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 of the above statements is based.