Global oil prices took a hit in the last week, but a confluence of factors could carry Brent to its highest levels in more than three years this summer, according to one commodities market veteran. “People are throwing out the $100 level. I don’t have that as my base case, but I could see us getting there,” Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told CNBC’s ” Futures Now ” on Thursday. According to Croft, a few geopolitical chess pieces have to be in place before oil can scale those heights. First, conditions in Venezuela, the embattled oil producing economy whose economy is in free-fall, must continue to deteriorate. Venezuelan production has taken a sharp turn lower, with the country facing an economic crisis of food shortages and spiking inflation. Oil output declined to a multi-year low of 1.505 million barrels per day in April, […]