Erin Energy Announces Release Date and Conference Call Information for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2016 Results Erin Energy Corporation (Incorporated and registered in Delaware, United States of America) Share code on the NYSE MKT: ERN Share code on the JSE: ERN ISIN: US1317452001 (“Erin Energy” or “the Company”) Erin Energy Announces Release Date and Conference Call Information for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2016 Results HOUSTON, March 3, 2017 - Erin Energy Corporation (Erin Energy or the Company) (NYSE MKT:ERN) (JSE:ERN) has scheduled release of its 2016 full year and fourth quarter results to occur after close of market on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. CT (11:00 a.m. ET) to discuss the results and update its current operations. The dial-in number to access the conference call is 1-844-883-3907 in the United States or 1-412-317- 9253 internationally. Participants should ask the call operator to be placed on the “Erin Energy Results Conference Call.” To access the live audio webcast, please visit the “Investors” section of the Company’s website at www.erinenergy.com. Erin Energy Corporation is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on energy resources in sub-Saharan Africa. Its asset portfolio consists of 7 licenses across 4 countries covering an area of 19,000 square kilometres (5 million acres), including current production and other exploration projects offshore Nigeria, as well as exploration licenses offshore Ghana, Kenya and The Gambia, and onshore Kenya. Erin Energy is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and is listed on the New York and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges under the ticker symbol ERN. More information about Erin Energy can be found at www.erinenergy.com. Source: Erin Energy Corporation Contact: Lionel McBee Director, Investor Relations +1 713 797 2960 lionel.mcbee@erinenergy.com Houston 3 March 2017 Sponsor: Sasfin Capital (a division of Sasfin Bank Limited) Date: 03/03/2017 07:05:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.