The present work is an experimental study of the characteristics of a drag reduced turbulent pipe flow. The main goal of the study is to measure the differences in the mean velocity and turbulence profiles between the Newtonian flow and the drag reduced flow using the stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV). It has been designed and built a loop test to perform the experiments. The loop test should allow the measurement of the pressure drop and the velocity field with the SPIV. It has been achieved a drag reduction of 50% before the polymer degradation. It was shown that drag reduction strongly depends on the Reynolds number. For low Reynolds number (< 10(3)) there was no drag reduction. In the mean velocity field it has been seen that the buffer layer is thickened, with causes an upward shift of the logarithmic profile for the drag reduced flow.