Heavy oils are significantly important in the Brazilian and international scenario and its particularity is the high viscosity and consequent dfficulty of transport. This type of oil has viscoplastic rheological characteristics, and under certain conditions not yet well understood, exhibits the phenomenon of apparent wall slip during internal flow, with the potential to substantially reduce the head-loss in a flow system. This study investigated experimentally the wall slip that occurs in the flow of viscoplastic liquids. Due to an experimental evidence, the amount of wall slip seems to depend on two physical properties of the internal surface of the pipeline, therefore it was determined also the roughness and wettability of these. A test section was designed and built. Plates with different coatings and roughness constitute the parallel channel which the uid was forced through in order to obtain the curves of dimensionless average velocity versus dimensionless wall shear stress. These ows were also numerically solved referring to the case of no wall slip. Comparisons between the experimental and numerical results could quantify the amount of wall slip that occurs in the experiments. We used an aqueous solution and oil dispersion. It was observed that the wall slip, that occurs during the ow of viscoplastic materials, manifests itself in the range of low dimensionless wall shear stress and that the coatings have two main functions, reduction of the roughness and increase of the wettability, both with the effect of increasing the amount of wall slip and thus reduce the head-loss, diminishing operational costs.