Total's (TOT) Victoria gas find offshore Norway is smaller than originally thought, the country's petroleum directorate, or NPD, said Thursday.

"Preliminary estimates indicate that the discovery may be within the range of 20-60 billion standard cubic meters of recoverable gas," the NPD said. That compares with earlier estimates of 89 billion cubic meters of gas, which would have been Norway's largest undeveloped gas discovery, the NPD said.

Directorate Web site: www.npd.no

-By Elizabeth Adams, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0) 20 7842 9386; elizabeth.adams@dowjones.com