Recovery from hurricanes Katrina and Rita is taking longer than anticipated, and "it now appears unlikely that anything close to complete recovery will occur before the end of the second quarter of 2006," the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday as changes to its recovery projections were driven by more detailed information on damage to production wells, pipelines and natural gas processing plants from the powerful back-to-back storms, which hit the Gulf region in late August and early September.

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