Edge Petroleum (EPEX)

TO BE HELD ON JUNE 7, 2006

To the Stockholders of

Edge Petroleum Corporation

The annual meeting of stockholders of Edge Petroleum Corporation will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1200 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002, on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Houston time, for the following purposes:

1.     To elect three directors.

2.     To consider and vote upon the proposal to approve the Edge Petroleum Corporation Incentive Plan, including an amendment to increase the number of authorized shares reserved for issuance thereunder from 1,700,000 shares to 2,200,000 shares.

3.     To ratify the selection of BDO Seidman, LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2006.

4.     To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

The Board of Directors has fixed the close of business on April 13, 2006 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, this meeting.

You are cordially invited to attend the meeting in person. Whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting in person, it is important that you complete, sign, date and promptly return the enclosed proxy card or that you give your proxy by telephone or the Internet.  Submitting your proxy early by any of these methods will not prevent you from voting your shares at the meeting if you desire to do so, as your proxy is revocable at your option.