PETROLEUM-BASED AROMATICS-CONTAINING OIL, RUBBER COMPOSITION, TIRE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TIRE

An oil including petroleum-derived aromatics which has a saturation fraction content, as determined by the clay-gel method, of 45 mass% or less, the proportion of dicyclic aromatics separated as a fraction by HPLC being 16-29 mass% with respect to the amount of the aromatics that is taken as 100 mass%, and which has a benzo[a]pyrene content of 1 mass ppm or less and a total content of the following specific aromatic compounds 1) to 8) of 10 mass ppm or less. 1) benzo[a]pyrene, 2) benzo[e]pyrene, 3) benzo[a]anthracene, 4) chrysene, 5) benzo[b]fluoranthene, 6) benzo[j]fluoranthene, 7) benzo[k]fluoranthene, and 8) dibenzo[a,h]anthracene.