LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - BP has started production at the Platina oilfield offshore Angola, Chief Executive Bernard Looney said in a post on LinkedIn on Thursday.

The Platina field will be linked to BP's existing Greater Plutonio floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) system in Angola's Block 18 which started up in 2007.

It will produce 30,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak, BP said in a statement in October 2020.

Platina "will tie into one of our existing production vessels – so, even though we began producing in this area 14 years ago, we can now increase our supply", Looney wrote https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6869633784988405760/?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6869633784988405760%29.

(Reporting by Ron Bousso; Editing by Jan Harvey)